The history and practice of Industrial Design in Victoria Australia is my research interest and this blog include posts related to this interest as well as my practice as a designer and design educator.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

The Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle met today with the Italian Ambassador Mike Rann and BlackBOX curator senior lecturer at MADA Monash Art Design and Architecture, Ian Wong to discuss the upcoming Expo in Citta event. The City of Milan is hosting Expo in Citta during Expo2015 and BlackBOX celebrates the Milan/Melbourne sister city relationship and in particular the reputation for design in both cities.

The exhibition features sixty four 3D printed black boxes and utilises an IOS app soon to be released in the Apple app store. The app has been developed with Art Processors who are also featured in BlackBOX with the ENSO Locate technology in use at the Melbourne Zoo and the Museum of Old and New Art MONA in Tasmania.

Lord Mayor Robert Doyle demonstrates the BlackBOX project soon to be in Milan as part of Expo in Citta to the Italian Ambassador Mike Rann.

About Me

Ian Wong is an industrial designer with over twenty five years of professional practice experience. Ian is Program Director - Master of Industrial Design at MADA Monash University. This double masters degree is delivered at the SouthEast University Monash University Joint Graduate School (Suzhou) in China. Ian has worked previously as design manager for Outerspace Design and Silvan Australia, and lectured also at RMIT and Swinburne Universities. Ian is a councilor of the Design Institute of Australia and President of Melbourne Movement.